Wan Li sent a message to keep communication open and be ready for missions at any time.
The message display time was eight o'clock the night before yesterday, when Chujiu and I were in Fengwang Village.
After looking at the sleeping Chujiu, I casually picked up the magazine Zhang Feng left behind and walked towards the teaching building.
I was probably the only student in the old Marxist-Leninist class on the first day after the holiday.
Unexpectedly, there was another female classmate in the classroom.
After the school bell rang, the old Marxist-Leninist man walked into the classroom and looked at the female classmates with a slight displeasure on their faces.
"This classmate, you have a holiday from this class. You can go back and study by yourself."
The old Marxist-Leninist man actually kicked the female classmate out of the classroom. In the surprised eyes of the female classmate, the old Marxist-Leninist man threw the book on the podium and sat next to me.
"Teacher, it's rare for an extra classmate to come to class, how come you?"
The old Marxist-Leninist man snorted coldly. If there were more than two classmates in the classroom, he would have to stand on the podium and give a lecture. It would be better to send her back to chat with me.
When he returned to the dormitory, Chujiu had already woken up and was sitting in front of the TV playing games.
"Chujiu, let me tell you some bad news."
I told Chujiu the message sent by Wan Li, which meant that we might have to make a long trip before the final exam in the summer vacation.
"Guo Guo, what kind of bad news is this? Don't you get a stipend when you go on a mission?"
According to the meaning of Chujiu, I wish I had tasks every two days, could go out to play and make money.
I casually slapped Chujiu on the forehead, and then I realized that I had become a habit of slapping Chujiu recently.
In order to hide that I was not beating him habitually, I pretended to be a good brother and told him seriously that students should study hard.
Chujiu glared at me, it was time to clear up all the grudges I had carried during this holiday. If I hit him casually, I would fall out.
"What are you muttering about? You can speak louder if you can."
I raised my hand again, and Chujiu shrank his neck and told me that he had read all the textbooks this semester.
“Where are the English books?”
"Guo Guo, I'm suddenly very hungry. Let's go eat the cheapest noodles."
Chujiu turned off the game console and TV, pulled me and walked out of the apartment.
When the cafeteria and noodle shop were busy, Chujiu rushed into the kitchen and said hello to the proprietress, and helped himself to enough food and clothing.
Sure enough, Chujiu brought two bowls of obviously excessive noodles out of the kitchen.
When paying the bill, I specifically asked my meal card to charge an extra two yuan and told the boss to get another bottle of orange juice.
When the landlady took out the orange juice, I had already dragged Chujiu away.
"You two brats, why are you running away?"
The boss lady yelled, and the classmates in the cafeteria thought that Chujiu and I had finished our meal without paying.
"Guo Guo, why don't you call Boss Deng and tell him to deliver the car to him later?"
Chujiu said that he always felt embarrassed to face Deng Deyou. Zhang Ying's bronze mirror was a problem. He always felt that it was because of himself that Boss Deng suffered a loss.
"Business is like this. There are so many people who take advantage of losses. Maybe Deng Deyou sold a lot of bronze mirrors like this."
Finally, I called Deng Deyou on the ninth day of the lunar month. He told Deng Deyou that I had a dream.
I dreamed that there was a bronze mirror among the old items that Deng Deyou collected. This bronze mirror was amazing.
Deng Deyou on the other end of the phone was very surprised. He had indeed received a pair of old dressing tables with two bronze mirrors on them.
One of the bronze mirrors was refurbished and processed by craftsmen and sold at a high price.
As for the other bronze mirror, it is still in the warehouse and will be processed again later.
"Guo Guo said he was dreaming that one of your two mirrors was a treasure."
Chujiu and Deng Deyou boasted that people like us seldom dream, but if we dream, it will definitely be effective.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, Deng Deyou was asked to take the bronze mirror to Uncle Ding and ask people from Uncle Ding’s Antique Street to identify it, and casually mentioned the shadow in the mirror.
"Okay, okay, it all depends on your fate. If it's the one that's sold, consider yourself unlucky."
I understood what Chujiu meant. He must have guessed that since the two bronze mirrors were taken back together by Deng Deyou, it meant that they were both reflections in the mirrors, and it was possible that the one left in the warehouse was of better quality.
This is a habit shared by everyone. The first renovation process will definitely not use the best materials.
Even if Deng Deyou knew that the bronze mirror in his furniture store was sold to Zhang Ying, relying on Zhang Ying's identity, he could only accept this dumb loss.
Besides, Deng Deyou also said on the phone that the bronze mirror was sold at a high price.
On the third day after we called Deng Deyou, Uncle Ding sent me a pager message, and Boss Deng invited us to have a big dinner on the weekend.
It seems that just as Chujiu suspected, the bronze mirror Deng Deyou left in the warehouse is indeed the shadow in the mirror.
I was urged to go to the Chamber of Commerce at noon on the weekend. It was clear that Uncle Ding was talking about Deng Deyou inviting us to dinner in the evening.
Uncle Ding talked about Deng Deyou's bronze mirror. After appraisal by experts in the antique street, it was indeed a rare reflection in the mirror. It was worth thirty thousand in the Tang Dynasty.
Experts who identify antiques have analyzed that this mirror should be a pair, and the shadows and paintings in the two mirrors echo each other. If both bronze mirrors are present, they would be worth at least six figures.
"Qin Feng, you and Zhang Ying have a good relationship. She praised you for a long time last time when she came to give you a reward."
Uncle Ding took out a brown paper envelope from his desk and threw it to me. There was a full five thousand yuan in it.
Inside this envelope is the reward given to him by Zhang Ying, and he has always kept it here.
"Uncle Ding, friendship is friendship, and business is business. This is not appropriate. It was half as promised at the beginning."
I counted out two thousand five hundred yuan and handed it back. Uncle Ding smiled and caught it and threw it into the desk drawer.
"Then why don't you make another trip to Zhang Ying? Boss Deng promises to send her another identical dressing table."
I glanced at Chujiu, who curled his lips and saw that Teacher Ding gave us the game console, so let’s go and try it.
"I'll try my best."
I could only promise Uncle Ding to try to talk it over, but I couldn't guarantee the outcome. Both parties were friends, which really made me embarrassed.
Uncle Ding nodded, that was enough. Neither he nor Deng Deyou wanted to go see Zhang Ying. Even if he bought it for 30,000 yuan, he might attract gossip.
After dinner, Deng Deyou made it clear that there was no rush to use the van, and he would let us drive it back to school so that we could make do with it during the day.
Uncle Ding, who had drunk a lot, said proudly that we would leave the van for him and we would drive his Cadillac back to school.
I already had a rough idea of what was going on at the wine table.
After Uncle Ding became the president of the Chamber of Commerce, he was busy with the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce all day long. There has been no decent treasure in the antique shop for a long time.
This time, Deng Deyou happened to send him a bronze mirror for appraisal. If both bronze mirrors could be placed in his shop, it would save a lot of trouble.